Microsoft Internet Explorer
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Internet Explorer 11 running on Windows 10
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| Original author(s) | Thomas Reardon | ||||||
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| Developer(s) | Microsoft | ||||||
| Initial release | August 16, 1995 | ||||||
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| Development status | Discontinued (but still supported on Windows 7 and later) | ||||||
| Written in | C++ | ||||||
| Operating system | Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, HP-UX | ||||||
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Windows 95 OSR1 and later Windows NT 4 and later Mac OS 8.1 through Mac OS X 10.2 Xbox 360 Xbox One |
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| Engines | Trident, Chakra | ||||||
| Platform | IA-32, x64, ARMv7, IA-64, MIPS, Alpha, PowerPC, 68k, SPARC, PA-RISC | ||||||
| Available in | 95 languages | ||||||
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Web browser Feed reader |
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| License | Proprietary, requires a Windows license | ||||||
| Website | microsoft |
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| Standard(s) | HTML5, CSS3, WOFF, SVG, RSS, Atom, JPEG XR | ||||||
| As of | 19 July 2016 | ||||||
| Internet Explorer versions: | |||||||
| Windows | 11.0.40 (11.953.14393.0) (March 14, 2017) |
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| Mac | 5.2.3 (June 16, 2003) |
| Unix | 5.01 SP1 (2001) |
Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a discontinued series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year. Later versions were available as free downloads, or in service packs, and included in the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) service releases of Windows 95 and later versions of Windows.
Internet Explorer was one of the most widely used web browsers, attaining a peak of about 95% usage share during 2002 and 2003. This came after Microsoft used bundling to win the first browser war against Netscape, which was the dominant browser in the 1990s. Its usage share has since declined with the launch of Firefox (2004) and Google Chrome (2008), and with the growing popularity of operating systems such as macOS, Linux, iOS and Android that do not run Internet Explorer. Estimates for Internet Explorer's overall market share range from 5.45% to 27.38% or by StatCounter's numbers ranked 3rd, just after Firefox (or even as low as 6th when counting all platforms, after Opera (and behind Safari)), as of August 2016[update] (browser market share is notoriously difficult to calculate). Microsoft spent over US$100 million per year on Internet Explorer in the late 1990s, with over 1,000 people working on it by 1999.
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